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alphabetise

alphabetise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of alphabetize.

Meaning of alphabetize

Verb

alphabetize (third-person singular simple present alphabetizes, present participle alphabetizing, simple past and past participle alphabetized)

  1. (Canada, US, transitive) To arrange words or items in order of the first (and then subsequent) letters as they occur in the alphabet.
    • It was almost impossible to locate specific books in the library until we had alphabetized them by the authors' surnames.

Forms of alphabetise

third-person singular presentalphabetises
present participlealphabetising
past participlealphabetised
pastalphabetised

Origin of alphabetise

From alphabet + -ise.

Words formed from alphabetise

Questions about alphabetise

What is alphabetise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Alphabetise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of alphabetize.

Words near alphabetise in the dictionary

  1. alphabetics
  2. alphabetiform
  3. alphabeting
  4. alphabetisation
  5. alphabetisations
  6. alphabetise
  7. alphabetised
  8. alphabetiser
  9. alphabetisers
  10. alphabetises
  11. alphabetising

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: alphabetise (page history and authors); alphabetize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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